DDLightbarMenu.js is a loadable JavaScript file that provides a lightbar menu class for use in JavaScript scripts for Synchronet. ​ DDLightbarMenu supports single item selection and multiple item selection. ​ For one example of how to use DDLightbarMenu,​ you can look at the code for ''​[[howto:door:slyvote]]''​.\\

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The user can navigate the list using the up & down arrows, PageUp, PageDown, Home, and End keys. The enter key selects an item. The ESC key will exit the menu and return null. This menu library requires the use of an ANSI terminal. ​ By default, this menu library does not display a border around the menu. If you want this library to draw a border around the menu, you can set the borderEnabled property to true. Without a border, the menu gains 2 characters of width and 2 lines of height.

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This script provides a class, DDLightbarMenu. ​ To create a new DDLightbarMenu object: new DDLightbarMenu(x,​ y, width, height);

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**DDLightbarMenu methods**

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^ Name ^ Returns ​ ^ Usage ^ Description^

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| Add | void | DDLightbarMenu.Add(text,​ retval, hotkey) ​ | Adds an item to the menu with a given item text, return value, and hotkey for the item. If the ampersandHotkeysInItems property is set to true before this method is called, then a & can be used in the item text just before the hotkey you want to enable for the item. For example, "Item &​1"​ would display the text "Item 1" with "​1"​ being the hotkey for the item. |

| GetVal ​ | various | DDLightbarMenu.GetVal(draw) ​ | Waits for user input, then gets the value of the item selected by the user. The '​draw'​ parameter is a boolean that specifies whether or not to draw the menu first (defaults to true). ​ The return value type will be as follows:​\\ ​ * If in multi-select mode, this method will return an array of the chosen values.\\ ​ * If in single-select mode, this method will return the single value selected by the user.\\ ​ * If the user exited the menu without choosing (i.e., with ESC), this method will return null. |

| Draw | void | DDLightbarMenu.Draw(selectedItemIndexes) ​ | Draws the menu with all (visible) menu items. ​ The selected items will be highlighted. ​ The '​selectedItemIndexes'​ is an object that can contain multiple indexes of selected items (as properties of the object) - This is only for multi-select mode. These are used for drawing a marking character in the item text. |

| maxNumSelections ​ | number ​ | The maximum number of item selections. ​ -1 or 0 means no limit on the number of selections. |

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| multiSelectItemChar ​ | string ​ | The character to use for displaying which items are selected (for multi-select mode). ​ Defaults to the check-mark character. |

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| numberedMode ​ | boolean | Whether or not to use '​numbered mode'​. ​ Defaults to false. ​ If true, the menu will automatically use number input from the user for selecting the items. |

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To change the colors used for displaying the items, you can change the values in the colors object within the DDLightbarMenu object. ​ These are the current supported colors (in the '​colors'​ property of the object):

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^ color property ​ ^ Description ^

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| itemColor ​ | The color to use for non-selected items (current default is white on blue) |

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| selectedItemColor ​ | The color to use for selected items (current default is blue on white) |

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| itemTextCharHighlightColor | The color of a highlighted non-space character in an item text (specified by having a & in the item text). ​ It's important not to specify a "​\1n"​ in here in case the item text should have a background color. |

By default, the menu selection will wrap around to the beginning/​end when using the down/up arrows. ​ That behavior can be disabled by setting the wrapNavigation property to false.

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This menu object supports adding multiple hotkeys to each menu item. A hotkey can be specified in the Add() method a couple of different ways - By specifying a hotkey as the 3rd parameter and/or by putting a & in the menu item text just before a key you want to use as the hotkey. ​ For example, in the text "​E&​xit",​ "​x"​ would be used as the hotkey for the item. If you want to disable the use of ampersands for hotkeys in menu items (for instance, if you want an item to literally display an ampersand before a character), set the ampersandHotkeysInItems property to false. ​ For instance:

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lbMenu.ampersandHotkeysInItems = false;

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Note that ampersandHotkeysInItems must be set before adding menu items.

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You can call the SetItemHotkey() method to set a single hotkey to be used for a menu item or AddItemHotkey() to add an additional hotkey for an item in addition to any existing hotkeys it might already have.

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This menu class also supports an optional "​numbered mode", where each option is displayed with a number to the left (starting at 1), and the user is allowed to choose an option by typing the number of the item. Numbered mode is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting the numberedMode property to true. For example:

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lbMenu.numberedMode = true;

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When numbered mode is enabled and the user starts typing a number, the menu will prompt the user for an item number. ​ Note that the prompt will be located on the line below the menu, so in addition to the menu's height, you'll also need an extra line on the screen to account for the item prompt. ​ In addition, when the user presses the enter key after the item number, a carriage return/line feed will be outputted, so in numbered mode, the menu's height should not go further than 2 lines below the console height. ​ Otherwise, the display of the menu will not be correct if the user decides not to enter a number.

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This menu also supports multiple options selected (by default, that is not enabled). ​ To enable that, set the multiSelect property to true. When enabled, the GetVal() method will return an array of the user's selections rather than a string (or null if the user aborted). ​ You can also set a limit on the number of items selected in multi-select mode by setting the maxNumSelections property. ​ The default value is -1, which means no limit (0 also means no limit). ​ Example, with a limit:

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lbMenu.multiSelect = true;

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lbMenu.maxNumSelections = 5;

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Example usage:

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load("​DDLightbarMenu.js");

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// Create a menu at position 1, 3 with width 45 and height of 10

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var lbMenu = new DDLightbarMenu(1,​ 3, 45, 10);

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// Add 12 items to the menu, each of which will return the text of the item

// If you want a particular character in an item's text highlighted with

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// a different color, you can put a & character immediately before it, as

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// long as it's not a space. ​ For instance, to highlight the "​x"​ in "​Exit":​

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lbMenu.Add("​E&​xit",​ -1);

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To enable borders, set the borderEnabled property to true. Example:

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lbMenu.borderEnabled = true;

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The menu object has an object called borderChars,​ which stores the characters used to draw the border. ​ you can change the characters used to draw the border by setting the following properties of the borderChars object: